Report on files by type

David Rosenstrauch darose-prQxUZoa2zOsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org
Wed Mar 10 17:53:19 EST 2010


On 03/10/2010 05:33 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote:
> I got a drive from someone today, with 3.2 GB worth of content on it, and I
> quickly wanted to find out what was on the drive by 'content type'
> (mime-type)
>
> find -type f | egrep -o '\.(.?.?..)$' | sort | uniq -c
>
> did the trick for me, but left me wondering what File Manager or other tool
> does a better job of this?

find -type f | xargs file -i

DR





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